The Great Debaters
Movie • 2007 • Drama
ReportThe true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African-American college students into a historical powerhouse that took on the Harvard elite.
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A pig is killed early in the movie
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But at one point it is implied that a character might vomit
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At the very beginning, a man is shown pushing his wife
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not explicit, but it is implied
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several scenes in the movie have cameras flashing, but no strobe effects
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used by both Black and white characters
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briefly in a debate scene, and it is rebutted
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the only death in the film is an unnamed Black man
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The students have to crouch down in a car
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no, but there are scenes that involve alcohol/where a character gets drunk and alcohol is given to a minor (though he is not shown getting drunk)
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A car hits a pig but the passengers are not injured.
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several characters are threatened with guns (both by police officers and civilians) but no shots are fired
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no, but a man who has been hanged is then set on fire
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There’s a lynching
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a Black man inside a police station is shown with a beaten face
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